Korean sex workers are heading here to work after a backlash against them in Australia, a Korean expert says. More foreign prostitutes are coming to New Zealand and offering unprotected sexual services. Police have interviewed a man over claims a prostitute wrote a note seeking help and secretly handed it to him. NZ First's prostitution reform amendment bill wants to get sex workers off the streets and into brothels - in other words, end street prostitution altogether.
A study has found that underage sex workers take methamphetamine and work all night on the streets of Auckland - then attend school the next morning. New Zealand is the best place on Earth to be a prostitute, says a local sex workers' advocate. New research finds that Auckland's streets were the most notorious, but indoor sex workers were subject to more violence in Christchurch. A woman who recruited women from Thailand to work illegally as sex workers in Auckland has been jailed.
Christchurch sex workers are continuing in their battle to get toilets installed on their red light patch. The woman who acted as "a self-confessed pimp", luring under-aged girls into a wealthy Auckland businessman's web of sex and drugs has dodged a jail term.
A man who has launched a series of court battles against a prostitute has failed in his latest bid. Auckland Council has been told it already has the power to pass a bylaw to prohibit prostitution in specified public places. A New Zealander has given evidence in the Florida trial of a man who allegedly forced women into becoming high-end prostitutes. New Zealand is a destination country for foreign men and women subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking, a US State Department report has claimed.
A Jamaican man accused of being a violent pimp who forced women into prostitution in Australia will face trial in a Miami, Florida, court. A man who tried to sue a prostitute for a refund has lost his case in the High Court. A Christchurch sex worker has been assaulted following a dispute over payment, police say.
